Jini Maxwell

Jini Maxwell is a curator at ACMI, and an award-winning videogame journalist. They curated ‘Honk: Untitled Goose Exhibition,’ co-curate Gay24, a monthly film night showcasing rare, radical and archival queer films. Jini is currently co-curating a major videogame exhibition at ACMI.

Jini Maxwell's Latest Articles

Winners of the 2020 AGDAs announced

The Australian Game Developer Awards ceremony streamed live on Twitch in 2020, hosted by Jordan Raskopoulos. Here is the full list of nominees and winners.

SA game developers

What can SA’s Video Game Development Rebate do for local developers?

The SA Video Game Development Rebate, the first of its kind in Australia, is now available to SA devs. What can a rebate like this actually achieve?

A screenshot from IGF Award winner Umurangi Generation

Umurangi Generation wins highest honour at the IGF Awards

The Australian/Maori antifascist photography game took IGF 2021 Seumas McNally Grand Prize among brilliant competition.

A screenshot from Akupara Games' Mutazione. An illustrated image of a group of people gathered around, smiling and talking.

The Indie Houses brings international collaboration to games publishing

The new publishing collective The Indie Houses brings together seven international games publishers with an 'indies for indies' approach. They announced a new publishing direct, a prototype development fund, and more.

The PlayStation Store is closing for the PS3 and vita.

Sony to shut PlayStation Store for PS3, PSP, and Vita

The Playstation store will no longer be accessible through PlayStation 3 consoles from July 2, and will shutter a month later for PSP and PS Vita.

Hollow Knight, one of the best games from SA

SA announces groundbreaking rebate for games industry

In a nation-first, the South Australian state government has extended the state's post-production, digital and visual effects (PDV) rebate to the development of videogames.

Gave developers celebrate POC in Play

POC game developers celebrate diversity with #IamPOCinPlay

The hashtag #IamPOCinPlay was created by POC in Play, a UK-based organisation that develops initiatives to promote and include People of Colour.

PlayStation stores for PS3 and Vita saved by public outcry

'It’s clear that we made the wrong decision here,' Sony admitted on a PlayStation blog.

Dap, part of the Pax Online indie showcase

PAX ONLINE: Meet the Aussies of the indie showcase

This year PAX's indie showcase of playable demos is all online, and just as exciting as ever.

unpacking game 2021 australian games

PAX Aus returns to Melbourne after a year online

PAX Aus have announced the festival will be held in person this year and gamers are rejoicing.

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